Ann McMahon Quintero News
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Santa Fe Opera 2022
Santa Fe Opera House from the parking lot Photo by Lisa Hirsch First out of the gate with a season announcement: Santa Fe Opera, as always (but later than usual for them). Carmen, with a good cast: Harry Bicket/Isabel Leonard, Bryan Hymel/Michael Fabiano, Michael Sumuel, Sylvia D'Ermano, David Crawford. Tristan und Isolde, James Gaffigan/Simon O'Neill, Tamara Wilson, Jamie! Barton!, Nicholas Brownless, Eric Owens. Falstaff, Paul Daniel/Quinn Kelsey, Alexandra LoBianco, Roland Wood, Elena Villalón, Eric Ferring, Ann McMahon Quintero, Megan Marino. The Barber of Seville, Iván López-Reynoso/Emily Fons, Jack Swanson, Joshua Hopkins, Kevin Burdette, Ryan Speedo Green. M. Butterfly, Carolyn Kuan/Kangmin Justin Kim, Mark Stone, Hongni Wu, Kevin Burdette, Joshua Dennis. The Tristan is a must-see for me, because Tamara Wilson and Jamie Barton are must see in those roles. Carmen: I never want to see it again, but maybe Bryan Hymel will sing all of his […]
2021-01-11 08:26:33
Re-inventing Kurt Weill: How Lotte Lenya's performances of her husband's music in the 1950s, born of expediency, came to define how the songs were performed
[…] to perform Die Dreigroschenoper and Mahoganny Songspiel after Brecht's death in 1956. There were even German performances of the American works, Street Scene and Lady in the Dark, but these simply cemented the view that after arriving in America, Kurt Weill ceased to be a composer to be taken seriously. Whilst she was particularly associated with her husband's music, Lenya also branched out into other areas. She played Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales in José Quintero's 1961 film, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (based on the Tenessee Williams novel), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and perhaps most memorably was Rosa Kleb in the 1963 Bond film From Russia with Love. Her re-creation of the Weimar Berlin cabaret style was brought full circle when she created the role of Fräulein Schneider in John Kander and Fredd Ebb's 1966 musical Cabaret. Based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-12-12 05:43:03
[…] Baritone Andrew Garland, conveyance of authority, intelligence and emotional sensitivity was a constant pleasure. He alone clearly searched for something deeper than mere musicality. Soprano Amanda Forsythe was rushed through the music of the Christmas angels, and was more gymnastic than joyful in “Rejoice greatly”, but was able to stretch out and deliver her Part III music (“I know that my Redeemer liveth,” “If God be with us”) with beautiful, vari-colored phrasing. Mezzo-soprano Ann McMahon Quintero sang with a dark and sweet tone that blended almost too well with the strings, into which she occasionally receded. Tenor Joshua Kohl tended towards strength and declamation, which made for an exciting “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron” but which was a bit chilly in “Comfort ye.” The chorus of 21 was nimble and suave; each number arriving spot on, often over very quickly. This Messiah whizzed by, but its […]
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